Divided party

In an explosive attack on the current leadership of the governing party, former minister John Dalli has called for the removal of the peope behind the strategies adopted by the divided PN. Dali, a prominent figure of the Nationalist Party (PN) in recent years and a party leadership contender last year, writes in today's edition of the Sunday Times that the party must change it's policy makers:

Writing in his fortnightly column in The Sunday Times today, former Finance Minister John Dalli attacks the Nationalist Party's "inner core" for greeting the heavy defeat suffered by the PN in yesterday week's local elections "with nonchalance", without even trying to find a reason "why so many have shunned the party" but instead they are trying to "grope for an excuse as far away from their magnetic field as possible". Mr Dalli says the people are still waiting for an explanation of the "strategy" which led to the PN pulling out its candidates from the local elections in Zejtun and Marsa.

When he had spoken at the party's general council last November, Mr Dalli writes, he had appealed for the party to become more inclusive, since "many Nationalist diehards" were feeling rejected in their own home. "Was this warning heeded?" Mr Dalli asks. The former Finance Minister ends his column by saying that "the party needs a root-and-branch pruning", adding: "Since the present strategists are insisting on the strategy that has failed, the party must change them."

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